Hugo Administrators Resign in Wake of ChatGPT Controversy

Another year, after controversy of the last Hugo Awards? This may be what science fiction lovers and relevant media think, with news today that three leaders from WorldCon in Seattle 2025, the next repetition of the agreement in which Hugos is submitted annually, resigned. This year, at least, the prizes themselves-which have been obtained by the members of the World Science Fiction Association (WSFS)-do not share directly in dust.

In a post on Bluesky, he participated in signed by Nicholas White, Vice Manager of Hugo, Esther McCalaum Stewart, and head of the World Science Fiction Association Cassidy, the trio announced that they were resigning from their roles before the Seattle event, which will happen in August. “We want to reaffirm that no LLMS or AI Tawylidi has not been used in the Hugo Awards at any stage,” the statement partially read, which may turn the heads of anyone interested in Hugos, but B) not in the latest controversy.

However, many people in society are well aware of what is going on. It will make you a quick trip to the Blog file 770 up to speed, as well as visit the Seattle World 2025, which participated in April 30, a leaflet showing the exact role played by artificial intelligence in the next event.

“We have received questions about Seattle’s use of artificial intelligence tools in our audit process for the program’s participants,” wrote Cathy Bond, president of Seattle Warfelon 2025. “In the interest of transparency, we will explain the process of how we use a large language model (LLM). We understand that members of our society have very reasonable concerns and strong opinions about the use of LLMS. Many members of our team for accuracy.

Bond publication goes to an explanation that “the use of this process has been provided hundreds of hours from the time of literally volunteer employees, and we believe that it led to a more accurate examination after the move to verify any alleged negative results. We also did not use LLM in any other aspect of our program or agreement.”

This last line is what the resignation of today from Whatte, Maccallum-Stewart and Cassidy also stressed: Hugos themselves have not been withdrawn to this process, which was supposed to help Seattle Worldcon 2025 to collect the paintings it provides to attend the agreement more efficiently.

Bond later published an additional message on May 2, while re -establishing her apology for using Chatgpt as part of the conference program examination. “In addition, I regret the issuance of a statement that did not address our society’s concerns,” I participated. “My first graphics about the use of artificial intelligence tools to examine the program was incomplete, defective, and missed the most important points. I acknowledged my mistake and I am really sorry for the damage it caused.”

However, as file 770 indicated, it seems that the damage has already happened: The use of Chatgpt in any capacity in relation to WorldCon has created anger on social media. It also inspired at least the Hugo candidate to remove their book from the competition: Yoon Ha Li, who Moon storm He was awarded the Ludestar Award, which honors YA versions. At a post on May 1 on Bluesky, the author was linked to the blogon blog on April 30, and indicated that he was withdrawing the title from looking.

After that, in a joint publication today it responds to the latest fly 770 publications that announce the resignation, the author wrote, “All respect and I am grateful for their work, sorry [things] He came to this corridor. “

Seattle World October 2025 is held 13-17 August; The Hugo Awards will be distributed on August 16.

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